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We’ve heard it a million times. Mobile technology is changing the way customers interact with most organizations, most prominently in financial services and retail.  Key players must possess mobile versatility and utility as emerging payment strategies reshape how we engage with customers on digital channels.  During our upcoming webinar, “Cashing in on Mobile Payments with […]

Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]

While at EMC World earlier this month, EMC announced the winners of its Partner Innovation Awards.  These awards recognize partners for excellence and innovation in solution development, design integration, and best practices for implementation and deployment of a solution that serves our mutual customers.  TriTek Solutions, now Perficient, was the proud recipient of EMC’s Outstanding […]

It’s not unheard of, that a CTO might have to grill some staff at audit-time, and that line of questioning to take some oddly specific turns. “Why is our hosting provider billing us for this server ORCL-001A? What’s it doing here? Weren’t all our backend systems moved to SQL Server? Weren’t all these virtualized?”  Whether […]

How many times have you been in your local bank branch in the last 6 months (for anything other than to get a sucker)?  If the answer is on more than one hand, you were probably born before the interstate highway system.  If you’re saying zero, you’re probably a Millennial like me. Since you’re reading […]

After passing into the new millennium, myself and many of my peers saw an increase in the use of innovative marketing terminology relative to technology.  Just around the turn of the century, the term “Big Data” surfaced in conjunction with analytics. Soon thereafter, it was being applied to large volumes of data exceeding 1 terabyte in […]

2013 will be a momentous year in which banks and financial services companies will be forced to innovate or get left behind, transform or face regulatory challenges, and embrace change or see profits dwindle.  Perficient showcased its new E-book, “2013 Bank Transformation Guide” at Bank Innovation where we engaged in similar discussions with some of […]

It is with great honor and excitement that I share the latest in Perficient’s growth story. Today, the company announced the acquisition of TriTek Solutions, an enterprise content management and business process management consulting firm, based in the northeastern United States. TriTek brings meaningful services expertise, important intellectual property assets, and a proven track record […]

Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]

I recently came across a Gigaom article, written by Phil Fasano of Kaiser Permanente, discussing the parallels to new and disruptive technologies in the financial services industry healthcare systems need to embrace to improve the quality of patient care while reducing costs.  This article got my wheels turning.  There are a lot of parallels to financial services […]

On the heels of the Bank Innovation conference we attended, the Financial Services team has published a new Perficient Perspectives, a series of informal Q&A sessions with our subject matter experts on hot technology topics and industry issues.  In our new Perspective, “The Future of Bank Product Strategies: How Creating a 360-degree View of the […]

While they’re not ubiquitous yet, payment apps are starting to be discussed in places not normally known for attention to payment issues, such as Andrew Sullivan’s Dish. The thread is primarily commiseration around a specific retail pain point, but the curated discussion highlights perspectives from both an end-user and someone that works in a place that […]